UPDATE: 2016 Death of American pilot, engineer, Mercury 7 astronaut, and US Senator John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (b. 1921); first American to orbit the Earth and later became the oldest person to fly in space.

Mark David Chapman reads Catcher in he Rye while waiting to assassinate John Lennon in New York City.

Posted onApril 24, 2016|Comments Off on Lost and Found – April 24th Edition

What to remember about April 24th…

1781 British General Benedict Arnold leads attack on Virginia militia near Petersburg; traitor Arnold was once an American General

1800 President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 for books to establish Library of Congress

1863 Union Army issues 1st code of battlefield conduct in the modern era; later used as basis for Geneva Convention

1918 British Mark IV and German A7V tanks clash at Villers-Bretonneux, France; 1st armor battle in history

1945 President Truman is briefed on the Manhattan Project and details of projects to develop an atomic bomb

1955 Afro-Asian Conference held in Bandung, Indonesia; 29 non-aligned nations including China and India declare they will take no side in cold war; refuse to take a stand against communism and totalitarianism

1674 Treaty is signed to end war between England and Netherlands; New Amsterdam is transferred to English and renamed New York

1777 Continental Congress promotes 5 to rank of Major General; Brigadier Benedict Arnold threatens to resign having been passed over

1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Alabama; conspired to establish new country from annexed Spanish territory

1847 Rescuers arrive at camp of starving Donner Party; settlers stranded by early snow in mountains had resorted to cannibalism

1878 American inventor Thomas Edison is awarded patent for phonograph

1942 President Franklin Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066; authorized removal of people deemed undesirable from military areas; by June more than 100,000 Japanese on West Coast will be in internment camps